FILM SOCIETY.
TEST CASE DECIDED. UNCENSORED PICTURES. EXHIBITION ILLEGAL. (By Telr-graph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Mr. E. Page, S.M., in a reserved judgment to-day convicted the Wellington Film Society (Incorporated), for exhibiting cinematograph films that had not been approved by the censor, in a place to which a charge was made in respect of persons admitted thereto.
On a charge relating to the film "The Road to Life," the society was convicted and ordered to pay coets amounting to £1 11/. The charge concerning '"The Animal Kingdom," which was shown before the incorporation of the society, was withdrawn.
Mr. Page agreed tlmt it was essentially a test case, and Mr. W. E. Leicester, who appeared for the defendant society, stated that an endeavour would be made to have a regulation made which would enable films not ordinarily passed by the censor to bo passed for exhibition to a particular number of people desiring to see them. He stressed that the object of the society was not to show uneensored films, and that the showing of two such films was merely coincidental with the operations of the society.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 259, 3 November 1933, Page 8
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